THE KNIGHT OF HEATHCOTE.
.2J;-'3uX Thereto Zealand Herald contains Itomffl ihis iaiian* member and his late speech :— Si** Orttjr3rl Wilson -(a'atMretfoi, blo«dUu9sr.iSdoiior ''' 'ttfah ''"' Gartte'rliqry; shonld allow its land to be absorbed ' and become colonial revenue, he' would -warn the MinistrY "hW' the North. IslAae ihaff It wcal'd T -briri£ about 'a revolution with arms ifa'haod, and the result wtfiH DelthuVOtaftoftod d^ierbnry woald retain nononly their land, fanCb4t nm I; C^sta'Qiß v; Vxcise 'duties. Tfali^t^Mg'^ro!!, r tfa ; ey are' the outcome of a very weak brain. Sir Cra&Wr? WWf fn°%is .time" li'aa . eaii. mmfaMfltimtyJfftlifo^^^ VoJ 'Jwe' have never heairo^.dr read that h| 'ever, did^^laid'anyinfifg thatjwoijld stand the^tyes^ '''common" iensft. althp,uj|h : possibly^hls may have happened,' and no one is aware of it. Bnt when ,it r coirfty f6 T »^«iSferrie^ihe War, w)th 1 Sir, Cracroft at \Wl&aW n JfT''& Southern army, let^od oiferventfy ! pray thit the gallant eenj;lfiman wiU7rerConsider hia I expreli^^eigrWnation/ 1 i'JQepend _ npon it," sayjLgir Craefof^, -"^Ministers are not so'rash as (0 arpo'se the people of tbja^^^^lsla^d 19 defend ; their, rig^f h_ftarme^ re'sj stance,, and I for^J one shonld be prepared to continue the ' str«gp_bj(ito<r)tbJe bitter end" This is 1 drewWafe^ bat to fancy Sir Crhccpft Wiiapn, b^atij3i>rbußs in , hand, at ' tfie*ft&a^ ) of : 'his mach Esteemed Gboorkks, or a company of gallant .jljoatiog withimilitary lWa>l^r,jV ffiwofaj right —.ehdrge." to imagine the awfal carnage which woald ensae, and how, before the wbole of -ffee! NbrttiJ Island blood had boen shedf^e sfiirfliiyaefor mercy, and ask the South to keep its laijcl, and, if it so pleasedjhem, Us Customs', revenue to Do^l^Bafj^^e^ome to thUjtjKpnld he perhaps better that weyßnonld t?y pacific measures. Would ft not be as, we4fT*^.jßßr^wi-6'ft ! be parged with havg^ipj bfloh4 oyer> in tv/p sureties of £10je^^irrai hb^atare jgood behaviour ? Id case this BhduTOl'fSil^hni' friends migli. l a&c l eTtaTh'' the very" loweat fp^s' «PWiiWbJch:h^c{WQold. be received into any well-rjcnlatodi lahttfc say lam, wbfevo -b^tiMit b«f allowed tc- ( indulge toy-Sol QT6rB. ■ .WJiu. VV*T^4-y)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 324, 2 October 1874, Page 4
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322THE KNIGHT OF HEATHCOTE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 324, 2 October 1874, Page 4
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